Post Tagged with: "Conflict"

  • Georgia: Class Struggle

    Georgia: Class Struggle

    This is the third in a series of multimedia reports on villages and urban districts in Georgia where Azeris and Armenians co-exist. You can learn more about this project and […]

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  • Georgia: Two Histories of One Homeland

    Georgia: Two Histories of One Homeland

    JAVAKHETY | Teachers in Armenian school No. 1 in Ninotsminda spent the last weeks of the summer trying to figure out how many textbooks to order from the Georgian education […]

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  • South Africa: A Fateful Decision

    South Africa: A Fateful Decision

    Johannesburg | In South Africa, any discussion of education reform begins and ends with the acronym OBE. Those three letters stand for Outcome-Based Education, a system adopted by the government […]

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  • Liberia: Dramatic Turnaround

    Liberia: Dramatic Turnaround

    MONROVIA, Liberia – On any weekday morning, the streets of the capital are filled with students dressed in their colorful school uniforms, having risen early to avoid competing with other […]

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  • Macedonia: Giving Education the Runaround

    Macedonia: Giving Education the Runaround

    SKOPJE, Macedonia | As Macedonia entered local and presidential election campaigns in mid-March, education was yet again among the government’s lowest priorities. Beyond generic promises to improve education infrastructure and […]

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  • Outdoor school in Kuita, Angola. Photo by Rafaela Printes. Creative Commons licensed.

    Angola: Slow Recovery

    LUANDA, Angola | Any discussion of the education sector in Angola cannot avoid the devastation wrought by over 25 years of civil war.  At the height of the Cold War […]

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  • Kosovo: No Playground Politics

    Kosovo: No Playground Politics

    PEC, Kosovo | The children of Brestovik, of both Serbian and Albanian ethnicity, spent most of their summer days playing together in the village schoolyard, even if they would be […]

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  • Kosovo: You Get What You Pay For

    Kosovo: You Get What You Pay For

    PRISTINA, Kosovo | Besim Gashi sits in a classroom of the Skenderbeu school, in a village in western Kosovo. Behind him, a tattered journal hangs in the corner, chronicling the […]

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  • Macedonia: The Politics of Incompetence

    Macedonia: The Politics of Incompetence

    Skopje, MACEDONIA | Despite announcing bombastic plans to overhaul the education sector over the past few years, the government of Macedonia has failed to devise a comprehensive strategy that could […]

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  • Uzbekistan: Do You Speak Russian?

    Uzbekistan: Do You Speak Russian?

    TASHKENT, Uzbekistan | I had a misunderstanding over an Internet card I was trying to buy from a young merchant in one of Tashkent’s stores not far from the Russian […]

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